Green cars — Green Car Journal’s Top 5 for the year

It’s been a rotten year for the auto industry — two out of the Big Three filed for bankruptcy, even after the government threw bailout money at them. Sales are down, money is tight, people are holding on to their cars.

But there is a future out there, somewhere, and not all is lost. If you take a longer look at the industry, from the perspective of what it’s been doing for decades, we are on the cusp of something new, an evolution of cars that don’t necessarily depend solely on gasoline to get themselves down the road.

Yes, we all know about the green car revolution, but it’s nice to be reminded that these cars, even if they comprise a tiny fraction of all cars sold in the U.S., are still making inroads.